I am told often that I am not like anyone that anyone has ever met. Unique. Not in the same way that everyone is unique, just something...different.

I don't know how true that is or isn't. I just think of myself as being fairly uncomplicated. I go with the flow, I treat people kindly and well and desire to be treated similarly, though without the expectation of it. I am honest and loyal, I won't betray a friend, an enemy or a confidence. I give and help when I can, I enjoy being me and I try to spread that joy to everyone I can and hope that they will be receptive of it. Love is a sacred thing to me, and not something I take lightly or tolerate being fucked with.

I don't like to get angry because when I do bad things tend to happen. I suspect that we all have somewhat sociopathic tendencies (though hopefully mine are mitigated by a healthy respect for life, or at the very least an inherent reticence towards complication and captivity so as not to go offing people wantonly), and prefer to not put myself in situations with people where those tendencies might come out. If a person gets me to the point of anger I get very cold and do the mental equivalent of kicking them off of my planet.

I am a Jester and a Trickster, I try to help people see, to get them to think in new ways and of old ways. I am an open book written in an obscure language. I laugh a lot, cry a little, am sparkly light, shadowy dark, super smart, terrifically naive, with all the inherent wisdom and guile of your average seven year old...

I am often mistaken for a genius just as often as I am mistaken for insane, which means that most people are only getting half the story and the truth is that I am just completely mad.

I am a wave and a particle and a state that has yet to be discovered. I like puppies and kittens and ice cream, just not all at the same time.

None of my personality awards are remotely accurate. No one who knows me would describe me as aggressive, cocky or less compassionate than average. In fact, they would describe me as the exact opposite of all of the above. Nor would they describe me as less organized, seeing as organization is my primary job fucntion and I do it exceedingly well. I think that the OKC severs are manfacturing machine drugs for themselves again...

How is that for starters?

Chaos Navigation, Writing, philosophizing, learning how to do performance magic, photography Working at my very usual job in a rather unusual industry/field,(which I will tell you about if you ask), and setting in motion my eventual hacking and reprogramming of reality.

I seem to have a knack for wandering around and finding my way to the places that I want to be. I am a traveler, taking the scenic route through life. The quintessential explorer, going everywhere, if not in style, at least with gusto. :)

I have a variety of very unusual talents, including knowing things about people that they don't know about themselves...I am also a finder of things. If its lost, forgotten, or unknown, odds are in my favor that I am able to find it.

Maybe those two things are one in the same, or at least go hand in hand...

Beyond that, I have a variety of interests and skills, some fairly usual, some not. I enjoy good conversation immensely, and the randomness of spontenaity. I am RELENTLESSLY CURIOUS, and ask lots of questions. I am also exceedingly fascinated with people in general and ask lots of questions.

People notice me?

Music: Tool, A Perfect Circle, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds/Grinderman, Dead Can Dance, Green Carnation, Pink Floyd, Henry Rollins, Tori Amos, Mozart, Bach, Queen, Slipknot, Metallica (pre-suckass), Voltaire, Weird Al Yankovic, Clannad, Loreena McKinnett, Marilyn Manson, System of Down, Suicidal Tendencies, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Norah Jones, VNV Nation, The Clash, Sting, Trans-siberian Orchestra, Alan Parsons, Billy Joel, Eminem, Gogol Bordello, Apocalyptica, Puscifer, Rage Against the Machine, Muse], The Decemberists, and a bunch of other stuff.

Movies: The Princess Bride, The Matrix, What the *Bleep* Do We Know, Ghost in the Shell and other anime films, Unbreakable, Tombstone, The Quiet Man, Dogma, BASEketball, The Boondock Saints, The Hunger, Labyrinth, The Sixth Sense, The Fifth Element, Heavy Metal, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Closer, Aeon Flux, The Professional, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Old cheesy horror and monster movies, Sin City, The Truman Show, Dune, Spider-Man, Excalibur, The Prestige, The Illusionist, Collateral, Iron Man.

Television: Iron Chef America, Good Eats, Fringe, Fullmetal Alchemist,The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park, Family Guy, MythBusters.

Books: Illusions: the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, The Tao Te Ching, American Gods - Neil Gaiman, Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams, The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice, Hamlet, The Raven, Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak, Stardust - Neil Gaiman, Time Enough for Love, Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein, Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein, Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, The Brothers Karamazov - Feyodor Dostoyevsky, No One Here Gets Out Alive - Danny Sugarman, Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll, The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall, To Reign in Hell - Steven Brust.

Magic, Music, Books, Good Food, A sense of humour, people, love, utter disregard for doing what I am told to do.

I think a lot about where I am, how the hell I got here, where I think I might be going. I think a lot about why I can't seem to find a decent guy, theorize on why the world seems to be going crazy, stories and things to write about, my own personal philosophy of life.

I think about people, why I love them, why they make me cry. I review the moves that I have made over the course of the day and speculate how they will shape my path, if I even have a path. I think about when it's going to hit me that I live in California now, if I like it here, and why I feel like I am missing something about it, or if it is like a movie that you like, but would like more if it hadn't been so hyped up.

I think about the fact that more than half the time, people probably have no idea what I am talking about, or that I am probably thinking something that no one else in the room is. I think about how everyone tells me how different I am and wondering if that is really true or if they have a small pool of people for comparison. I think about the fact that my son is an awesome kid and how much of that is luck and how much is good parenting.

I think about the hurtful things that people have done to me and if it was any fun for them to do them. I think about new ways of looking at old ideas, my therory of everything, my theory on how the universe really came into existence and how evolution of life on earth from single celled critters happened. I think about the fact that people seem to be comforted by the stories that they make up, but really, no one has any clue what happened 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 1000 years ago or 10,000 years ago, they just specualte it based on an interpretation of events that could change tomorrow based on the discovery of new information.

I think about what adventures I want to have here and where to start. I wonder why it is so hard to find people to really talk to rather than explain to. I think about the fact that everything is absurd and madness seems the only reasonable conclusion as to how to navigate through it all. I think about the fact that I would rather laugh than cry, but I still do a bit more of the latter than I like to sometimes.

I think about suicide in the abstract, and how feeling like I want to kill myself sometimes is probably very reasonable, and only becomes unreasonable if I were to act on it. I then think that sometimes everyone else killing themselves, while not without its logistical challenges, might actually be a better option.

I think about how the world needs a new myth and there is no reason why I can't create that narritive. I think about being supreme dictator of all reality, and that I would probably be good at it. I think about becoming an evil genius because the world needs one to counter all of the evil idiots and that it would probably guarantee me a castle somewhere, which would be cool. I think about time travel and why it's not impossible, and I think about no matter how shitty a day I have, tomorrow is a viable solution to what ails me.

Among other things...

Redefining the word typical into something that has meaning and relevance.

I have superpowers. And I am a smartarse.

You have superpowers. Or a story to share.
Or if you are a smartarse. You should defintely message me if you have/are all three.